{"id":199514,"date":"2026-03-26T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:30:15","slug":"attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases-2000738651\">Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases-2000738651\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases-2000738651<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 16:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An attorney in Oregon, Bill Ghiorso, was fined $10,000 by the Oregon Court of Appeals for submitting a legal brief with 15 fake citations and nine fabricated quotes.<\/li>\n<li>The fine was established after a three-judge panel decided that each false citation should be fined $500, and each false quote $1,000, leading to an initial fine of $16,500 which was capped at $10,000.<\/li>\n<li>Ghiorso claimed that he blamed a paralegal and said his team relied on Google\u2019s AI to verify the cases&#8217; authenticity, demonstrating a misunderstanding of AI reliability.<\/li>\n<li>The judges emphasized that Ghiorso should have realized the professional, truthfulness, and candor obligations were violated by presenting unchecked fabricated citations.<\/li>\n<li>There are precedents of monetary sanctions for attorneys misusing AI in legal briefs, indicating increasing judicial scrutiny of AI-generated information in legal contexts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases-2000738651 Publish Date: 2026-03-26 16:20:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gavel-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199516,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199514\/revisions\/199516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}